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Originally Posted by meganmonkey

Finally got a chance to watch this. Well worth the time. Thanks for the link.

It took me a couple of days to watch it all, but it is worth it. I'm glad you enjoyed it too MM. I like the quote from Louise Michel, about teachers. I'd like to find out more about her.

Finally got a chance to watch this. Well worth the time. Thanks for the link.

Heh! Clarence Thomas! That's an old buddy. Thanks for posting this and the video (watching now). The Port of Oakland workers are among the best- at least the best and most consistent I've personally come across in the US.

Thank you for posting this TBF. Really excellent.

Nice birthday mention from Fidel re Lenin - http://www.granma.cu/ingles/news-i/22abril-lenin.html

A giant of his era

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin• THE life and work of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin are worthy of admiration. Today as we celebrate the 141st anniversary of his birth, the continuators of his ideas are proud to describe them as ageless. He was the founder a new epoch, establishing the 20th century as the era of socialist revolution, breaking the power of the exploiters in backward Czarist Russia and creating, with the force of colossal tenacity and heroism, the first workers’ and farmers’ state in history, precipitating the rapid development of revolutionary and emancipation movements around the world.

Fidel on the 100th anniversary of this exemplary revolutionary’s birth said, "Lenin is one of those truly exceptional human beings. A simple reading of his life, his history, his work, the most objective analysis of the way his thinking developed and his attitude throughout his life make him in the eyes of all humanity, I repeat, a truly exceptional man.

No one was able, as he was, to interpret the depth, the essence and the value of Marxist theory. No one was capable, as he was, of analyzing this theory and taking it to its ultimate implications. No one was capable of developing and enriching it the way he did."

Among Lenin’s many significant contributions to Marxism and the progress of humanity, outstanding are his theory of imperialism as the final stage of capitalist development, the creation of a new type of party, the socialist revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, the obligatory relationship between national and social liberation, the principles of peaceful co-existence and the path to the construction of socialism

Enemies have tried to demonize him, but no one can deny the historic nature of the thought and action of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a political giant of his time. •

Well, there was the Red Scare, and old Walt was a virulent anti-communist. You might recall that he denied Nikita Krushchev admittance to Disneyland when he visited in the early 60's, what a dickhead. And as you say, bidness pressure, maximizing profit became overwhelming.

I think the lame-ification of cartoons started in the 50's, my preferred childhood fodder was pretty lame, didn't really appreciate the old stuff until my teens.

Originally Posted by blindpig

That's great Starry, I'm a sucker for vintage animation. So many of those cartoons, even in their original context, depended upon working class sensibilities. As did much of the cinema and I guess other art forms of the 30's and early 40's. And then something happened....

I'm a sucker for it too. You can tell that the guy who made it had a lot of material to draw on putting it together. I don't know what happened after that. Disney's monopoly probably contributed, and I guess the other studios felt the pressure to put out money-making crap to compete. I think the ones my brother and I grew up on in the '70's were mainly created to sell lunchboxes and cereal.

That's great Starry, I'm a sucker for vintage animation. So many of those cartoons, even in their original context, depended upon working class sensibilities. As did much of the cinema and I guess other art forms of the 30's and early 40's. And then something happened....

Testes look good.